Broadway Arcade, Commercial building in Downtown Los Angeles, United States

Broadway Arcade is a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles located between Broadway and Spring Street, connecting two twelve-story office towers through a three-level glass-roofed shopping passage. The covered passage houses 61 retail spaces across its levels and is illuminated by a large glass skylight.

The Los Angeles school board bought the site in 1883 for $12,500 and built Spring Street School there. After Mercantile Place was demolished in 1923, a design competition won by architect Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. and engineer Maurice C. Couchot produced the arcade, patterned on London's Burlington Arcade; businesses moved in by January 1925. In 1932 station KRKD erected two self-supporting broadcast towers on the roof.

The lower floors carry a Spanish Renaissance design, the upper floors a Beaux Arts design, and the top floor an Ionic column colonnade, following London's Burlington Arcade. The entrances are framed by thin twisted and beaded columns rising into delicate arches. A Venetian-style bridge spans the centre of the 86-by-26-foot arcade under the glass skylight.

The building can be walked through and provides a sheltered route with good orientation due to the continuous glass lighting overhead. The levels are easily accessible without barriers to entry.

The building's roof housed historic radio broadcast towers that made it an early communication center in the early 20th century. These technological additions show how the structure's purpose evolved over the decades.